At 11:04 AM 11/19/97 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:>At 08:09 PM 11/18/97 -0600, Glenn wrote:>>>Is Hawaii really the best place to test the theory?>>It is the most isolated island group in the world. Its history is well>documented. The endemic species are certainly evidence of speciation. If>ever there was a place to test your theory it is there.

There is still a matter of being old enough given that each species of
mammal appears to last around 3 million years.